Another Place
Chapter 6
"What do you mean by fun?" Q asked.
"I mean that since you can turn back time an unlimited amount of times, we can do whatever we want." Tom answered. "What, you didn't think of that?"
"Do you really think I would agree to that?" Q inquired.
"Yes…you're a Q; all Qs like to have fun." Tom responded.
"What kind of fun do you mean?" Q asked.
The First Time Around…
It was an hour after Tom and Q had decided to have a little…fun. Tom had used the replicator rations that had been donated by the crew to replicate some things. Tom had to assemble the object he had replicated and then had to teach Q.
"Pedal! Pedal!" Tom yelled after Q as she biked down the hall. Tom had replicated an old earth bike to ride down the corridors of Voyager.
"I am pedaling, Helmboy!" Q screamed back. The bike was careening in different directions.
"Watch out for Harry!" Tom yelled. He saw Harry Kim coming around the corner and Q heading right for him on the bike. She swerved just in time to avoid hitting him.
"Okay, okay, my turn." Tom said after another half hour of yelling at Q and apologizing to crewmen. Q got off the bike and Tom got on. "Geez, I thought the Q could do anything…"
"Shut up, Helmboy." Q replied.
Tom rode away on the bike rather fast; it obviously wasn't his first time on the bike. He had been riding the bike for about half an hour on several different decks. And, of course, Tom added a bell so he could warn people he was coming. But the most fun was seeing the looks on people's faces as he passed them by.
"Paris, what are you doing?" Chakotay asked Tom as Tom pedaled by.
"Riding a bike, have a good day!" Tom yelled back. Tom couldn't stop laughing at Chakotay and Tuvok, whom was standing next to Chakotay. Their faces were priceless.
The Fifth Time Around…
"B'Elanna?" Tom asked as soon as he came into Main Engineering.
"What is it, Tom? I'm kind of busy right now." B'Elanna answered looking down at her padd. Tom didn't speak for a little bit, so she looked up.
Tom kissed B'Elanna right in the middle of Engineering. The crewmen stared at them knowing the gossip would be enormous. Even though B'Elanna was with Harry, to Tom, it seemed that she kissed him back.
The 20th Time Around…
"I don't want to mess with the Borg." Tom said to the female Q.
"The Kazon, then? You haven't seen them in awhile." Q replied.
"They were annoying enough as it is, I don't want them around again." Tom answered.
"Mr. Paris, who is this?" Chakotay asked. Chakotay had come around the corner and saw the woman and Tom talking.
"Oh, Chakotay, just who I wanted to see." Tom said. "Listen, you're a great guy now, but…" Tom looked away and then punched Chakotay in the jaw. "I really really wanted to do that I long time ago and I just now got an opportunity." Tom looked back at Q whose mouth was wide open. "See, if I'm going down, I'm going down in style."